sedition

sedition

(sĭdĭ`shən), in law, acts or words tending to upset the authority of a government. The scope of the offense was broad in early common law, which even permitted prosecution for a remark insulting to the king. Although there have been several statutes in the United States forbidding seditious utterances and writings, the protection guaranteed to speech and press by the First Amendment to the Constitution has made them difficult to enforce except during periods of great national stress. The Sedition Act of 1798 generated so much opposition (see Alien and Sedition ActsAlien and Sedition Acts,1798, four laws enacted by the Federalist-controlled U.S. Congress, allegedly in response to the hostile actions of the French Revolutionary government on the seas and in the councils of diplomacy (see XYZ Affair), but actually designed to destroy Thomas.....Click the link for more information.) that similar statutes were not enacted until the 20th cent. During World War I the Espionage Act (1917) and the Sedition Act (1918) punished speeches and writings that interfered with the war effort or caused contempt for the government. Vaguely worded and broadly interpreted, they resulted in over 2,000 prosecutions, mostly against radicals and the radical press. The Smith Act of 1940, restricted in scope to the advocacy of violence against the government, was invoked only infrequently during World War II, though it was later used successfully to prosecute Communist party leaders, as in Dennis v. United States (1951). The libellibel and slander,in law, types of defamation. In common law, written defamation was libel and spoken defamation was slander. Today, however, there are no such clear definitions......Click the link for more information. decision of Sullivan v. New York Times (1964), by granting special protection to criticism of public officials, largely eliminated what remained of the crime of sedition in the United States.

Kiefer's triumphant is in the seditious chemistry of a heroic/tragic form he unearthed as much as concocted, that mysteriously evil beauty and lead gray and maddening ambience he lent to his dread subject.

Selangor police chief Datuk Mazlan Mansor in a statement here yesterday said the IPs were opened after four police reports were lodged following the spread of alleged seditious news relating to the incidents on social media.

On May 29, 2013 Tamrin together with activists Haris Ibrahim, Safwan Anang and PKR vice-president Tian Chua were charged for uttering seditious words during a rally on May 13 that year, just a few days after the 13th general election.

On February 5, 2015, Paulsen, represented by lawyer Zaid Malek, pleaded not guilty to a charge with publishing a seditious statement alleging that the Malaysia Islamic Development Department (Jakim) was promoting extremism.

Police today recorded a statement from social activist, Hishamuddin Rais who is alleged to to have uploaded an article which carried seditious elements on the Yang di-Pertuan Agong Sultan Muhammad V in his blog on June 6.

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